Yes. The contract includes an exit plan with documentation and a handover period, so you can bring the service in-house or move it elsewhere.
London Services
Best Managed services company in London
Managed operations, runbooks and agreed service levels, planned around your business peaks. Hosn Al Tomoh works with organisations in London on managed services, agreeing scope, responsibilities and proof of completion for each phase from the start.
Managed services take the day-to-day operation of systems off your team: monitoring, incident handling, patching, changes and reporting against agreed service levels. Capacity and change freezes are planned around your business peaks, such as Ramadan, month-end close or major sales.
We work with clients across the Middle East and beyond. For organisations in London, that usually means a programme with a Gulf footprint: we plan for your home-market data protection rules and for the GCC laws, such as the UAE and Saudi personal data protection laws, that apply where systems and data will sit.
Before go-live, we run a full rehearsal of the cutover with the team who will operate the service, and agree in advance how problems will be escalated in the first weeks after launch.
Where you already work with systems integrators or vendors, we can deliver in partnership with them, with each party's responsibilities written into the contract.
Where the effort goes
We concentrate on the points below, because that is where the work usually stumbles.
- Service levels you can observe in your own tools.
- Runbooks agreed before transition and updated after every major incident.
- Monthly service reviews that show trends, not only ticket counts.
What we check first
Transitions to a managed service fail when knowledge leaves with the old team. We shadow the current operation, document it and run it jointly before taking full responsibility.
At the end of each phase we provide the proof your risk and audit teams need to file: test results, access reviews and signed handover documents.
Before you start
Practical questions from IT and procurement teams.
Each phase is scoped and priced separately, with the team, the deliverables and the acceptance criteria written down, and you receive an itemised quote before work starts.
Your team, unless you choose managed services. We name who is responsible for each component before launch, hand over the runbooks and train your people.
How the work runs
Four stages, each with clear criteria for moving to the next.
Discover
We document the current set-up, the people involved and the constraints, and agree what success looks like.
Design and plan
We set the target design, phases, test approach and acceptance criteria, and review them with your architects and risk team.
Build and test in stages
We deliver in increments, testing and demonstrating each one before the next begins.
Hand over
We hand over runbooks, train your team and support the launch, then formally transfer responsibility to the people you nominate.
Ready to mature your operations?
Book a technical consultation with our principal engineers to map out your architecture and transition plan.